The 1914–1915 Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills strike was a labor strike involving several hundred textile workers from the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The strike, which
The Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills facility, 2015
Ola Delight Smith was hired by the union shortly after the strike began.
At the time of the strike, children represented approximately 12 percent of the mills' workforce.
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The Women's Trade Union League was a U.S. organization of both working class and more well-off women to support the efforts of women to organize labor unions and to eliminate sweatshop conditions. The
1914–1915 Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills strike
…UTW sent two more union organizers to help orchestrate the strike: Sara Agnes Mclaughlin Conboy and Mary Kelleher. Conboy had been an activist for the Women's Trade Union League in Boston and was the highest-ranking woman within the UTW's leadership. Miles also convinced the union to hire Ola Delight Smith to help with the…
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WTUL float, Labor Day parade, New York, 1908
1st International Congress of Working Women called by the National Women's Trade Union League of America, Washington, D.C., October 28, 1919